On the same day he performed a "secret show" at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his alma mater, pop icon Neil Diamond announced a North American tour, which includes a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville on Friday, March 13, at 8 p.m.
Tickets...

The death of actor Leonard Nimoy last week has inspired people to post photos on social media of marked-up five-dollar Canadian banknotes that show former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier transformed to resemble Spock, Nimoy's famous "Star Trek" character....

International travelers visiting Osceola County last year lost nearly $300,000 in personal items after a rash of vacation home burglaries.
Among the items stolen: a 2011 Porsche Panamera valued at $60,000, iPads, iPhones, Canon cameras and Coach purses....

A senior pastor at a Canadian church has been missing in North Korea since late January, officials said Tuesday.
Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim travelled to North Korea on Jan. 31 as part of a regular humanitarian mission where he supports a nursing home, a...

A high-risk sex offender who fled Canada for Seattle was being held on $1 million bail after authorities charged him with raping a 69-year-old woman.
According to documents filed in King County Superior Court, 49-year-old Michael Stanley had previously done yard work at the victim's home.
He showed up on Friday night seeking additional work. She told him she didn't have any, but investigators said he sneaked back into the home and attacked her.
He was charged with first-degree burglary and second-...

The list goes up on the lobby bulletin board of Vive La Casa and the refugees who've come from their rooms tentatively approach and scan for their names. The lucky ones will take a taxi to Canada the next day for a crucial step toward a dreamed-of new life there.
Maxene Youyoute, long dreadlocks falling from beneath a black cap, shakes his head. The 40-year-old Haitian is not on the list. Again. But he smiles and high-fives a Palestinian man who, after a 15-day wait at the Buffalo shelter, is beaming...

A Canadian tourist with several previous child sex convictions has been sentenced to seven years in prison in Nepal for sexually abusing a minor boy, the court said Monday.
The Lalitpur district court said that Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, 71, from the province of Nova Scotia, was also ordered to pay $10,000 to the victim by the judge in his ruling on Sunday.
MacIntosh was detained by the police in December after the victim filed a complaint with police. Details of the victim were not given because he is...

Residents in a small southeast Alaska community are worried that overnight closure of the Canada border will hurt safety and the local economy.
The Canada Border Services Agency said Friday the new hours would be 8 a.m. to midnight daily for the border between Alaska's Hyder and the British Columbia town of Stewart. The decision was made because the station was "underutilized outside of primary operating hours," said agency spokeswoman Stefanie Wudel.
Hyder is home to less than 90 people on the...

The Daily News of Newburyport (Mass.), Feb. 27, 2015
Thirty years ago, few people outside the realms of academic research or the government had heard of something called the Internet. Now, it's hard to imagine how we could get by without it.
The leap in little more than 25 years from a small network of interconnected government and academic computers used by researchers to a globe-spanning World Wide Web that provides information, instantaneous communications and an endless array of entertainment to...

Fiery wrecks of trains hauling crude oil have intensified pressure on the Obama administration to approve tougher standards for railroads and tank cars despite industry complaints that it could cost billions and slow freight deliveries.
On Feb. 5, the Transportation Department sent the White House draft rules that would require oil trains to use stronger tank cars and make other safety improvements.
Nine days later a 100-car train hauling crude oil and petroleum distillates derailed and caught fire in a...